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Luke Littler and Luke Humphries impacted by major PDC rule change at World Cup of Darts

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Published 14:57 11 Jun 2025 GMT+1

Luke Littler and Luke Humphries impacted by major PDC rule change at World Cup of Darts

A reminder that a significant change to the format was introduced ahead of last year's edition.

Jack Kenmare

Jack Kenmare

Featured Image Credit: Getty Images

Topics: Darts, Luke Littler

Jack Kenmare
Jack Kenmare

Jack is a Senior Journalist who enjoys a long read. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of Football Manager wonderkids from 2005 to the present day, and has interviewed a handful of FM's finest, including Freddy Adu, Supat Rungratsamee and Mika Aaritalo.

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With the 2025 World Cup of Darts set to get underway on Thursday, fans of the tournament are being reminded of a significant change to the format that was first introduced ahead of last year's edition.

This year’s World Cup of Darts will see 40 nations going head-to-head at the Eissporthalle in Frankfurt, with group and knockout stages featuring doubles matches throughout the pairs event.

Luke Humphries and Luke Littler will be aiming to secure a record-extending sixth World Cup crown for England, while Jonny Clayton and Gerwyn Price are all set to feature for Wales after guiding their country to a brace of titles in 2020 and 2023.

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Gary Anderson and Peter Wright, meanwhile, have been paired together for two-time winners Scotland, while Josh Rock will form a new-look pairing with Daryl Gurney for fourth seeds Northern Ireland.

As mentioned earlier, doubles matches will be played throughout instead of singles – a new format that was brought in for the 2024 edition.

That's right. Singles matches between individual players, which had been organised since the World Cup began in 2010, have now been removed entirely, meaning all the games in the tournament will be doubles matches.

England will be represented at the tournament by Luke Littler and world number one Luke Humphries, who can't wait to get into the action.

“We’re really looking forward to it,” Humphries told the PDC, two weeks after beating Littler to win the Premier League title. “I know there’s going to be a lot of pressure on us, but we’re really good friends, and if we connect, then we stand a great chance of winning this title.

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“We believe we can win it, and if we perform at our best, it’s going to take something special to stop us!”

Clayton, on the other hand, is convinced that Wales will be able to stop England. “We’re there to try and win the trophy," he said ahead of this month's compeititon. "We’ve done it twice before and we believe we can do it again."

He added: “I don’t care that Luke and Luke are world number one and the world number two. Us Welsh boys are going to stop them. If you want to win trophies you’ve got to beat big names and top players, so we’re ready to go."

Humphries and Littler are the tournament favourites. Image credit: Getty
Humphries and Littler are the tournament favourites. Image credit: Getty

Every competing nation and their pairings

As for the other teams involved, Belgium's Mike De Decker will partner with Dimitri Van den Bergh, Martin Schindler and Ricardo Pietreczko will team up for hosts Germany, and William O’Connor and Keane Barry will take part for Republic of Ireland.

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Here is the list in full:

England - Luke Humphries & Luke Littler

Wales - Jonny Clayton & Gerwyn Price

Scotland - Gary Anderson & Peter Wright

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Northern Ireland - Josh Rock & Daryl Gurney

Argentina - Jesus Salate & Victor Guillin

Australia - Damon Heta & Simon Whitlock

Austria - Mensur Suljovic & Rusty-Jake Rodriguez

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Bahrain - Sadeq Mohamed & Hasan Bucheeri

Belgium - Mike De Decker & Dimitri Van den Bergh

Canada - Matt Campbell & Jim Long

China - Xiaochen Zong & Lihao Wen

Chinese Taipei - Pupo Teng-Lieh & An-Sheng Lu

Croatia - Pero Ljubic & Boris Krcmar

Czechia - Karel Sedlacek & Petr Krivka

Denmark - Benjamin Reus & Andreas Hyllgaardhus

Finland - Teemu Harju & Marko Kantele

France - Thibault Tricole & Jacques Labre

Germany - Martin Schindler & Ricardo Pietreczko

Gibraltar - Craig Galliano & Justin Hewitt

Hong Kong - Man Lok Leung & Lok Yin Lee

Hungary - György Jehirszki & Gergely Lakatos

India - Nitin Kumar & Mohan Goel

Italy - Michele Turetta & Massimo Dalla Rosa

Japan - Ryusei Azemoto & Tomoya Goto

Latvia - Madars Razma & Valters Melderis

Lithuania - Darius Labanauskas & Mindaugas Barauskas

Malaysia - Tengku Shah & Tan Jenn Ming

Netherlands - Danny Noppert & Gian van Veen

New Zealand - Haupai Puha & Mark Cleaver

Norway - Cor Dekker & Kent Joran Sivertsen

Philippines - Lourence Ilagan & Paolo Nebrida

Poland - Krzysztof Ratajski & Radek Szaganski

Portugal - Jose de Sousa & Bruno Nascimento

Republic of Ireland - William O'Connor & Keane Barry

Singapore - Paul Lim & Phuay Wei Tan

South Africa - Cameron Carolissen & Devon Petersen

Spain - Daniel Zapata & Ricardo Fernandez

Sweden - Jeffrey de Graaf & Oskar Lukasiak

Switzerland - Stefan Bellmont & Alex Fehlmann

USA - Danny Lauby & Jules van Dongen

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